A new page is coming soon to this website drawing on research done while in France and through my own family archives. On the morning of 16th August 1917 my Great, Great Nephew Pte John Comerskey bravely climbing out of his shell hole and joining his fellow soldiers advanced up a muddy incline to Pilckem Ridge overlooking the village of Langemarck, Belgium. It was only a walk of some 100yds and in the morning dawn light it must have seemed a cinch. He wasn't to make the ridge; 8 officers and 101 men were lost to German machine gun fire in little more than 10 minutes. John was later declared missing and never found.He left behind two children about 9yrs old and a wife and sister. The full story will be told in these pages very soon complete with the photo's we have taken of the exact spot today. To Pte 22219 Comerskey J, now just a name on the Tyne Cot Memorial.